What products do the uk get from germany?

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what do we get from germany, like beer and stuff - need as many things as possible!

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ECONOMY AND RESOURCES
Currency euro (Deutschmark until 2002) GDP (US$) 1,976.2 billion (2002 est) Real GDP growth (% change on previous year) 0.6 (2001) GNI (US$) 1,870.4 billion (2002 est) GNI per capita (PPP) (US$) 26,220 (2002 est) Consumer price inflation 1% (2003 est) Unemployment 7.8% (2001) Major trading partners EU (particularly France, the Netherlands, UK, and Ireland), USA, Japan, Switzerland Resources lignite, hard coal, potash salts, crude oil, natural gas, iron ore, copper, timber, nickel, uranium Industries mining, road vehicles, chemical products, transport equipment, nonelectrical machinery, metals and metal products, electrical machinery, electronic goods, cement, food and beverages Exports road vehicles, electrical machinery, metals and metal products, textiles, chemicals. Principal market: France 11.1% (2001) Imports road vehicles, electrical machinery, food and live animals, clothing and accessories, crude petroleum and petroleum products. Principal source: France 9.4% (2001) Arable land 33.1% (2000 est) Agricultural products potatoes, sugar beet, barley, wheat, maize, rapeseed, vine fruits; livestock (cattle, pigs, and poultry) and fishing
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POPULATION AND SOCIETY
Population 82,476,000 (2003 est) Population growth rate -0.2% (2000–15) Population density (per sq km) 231 (2003 est) Urban population (% of total) 88 (2003 est) Age distribution (% of total population) 0–14 15%, 15–59 61%, 60+ 24% (2002 est) Ethnic groups predominantly Germanic (92%; notable Danish and Slavonic ethnic minorities in the north; significant population of foreigners (92%), numbering about 7.4 million (1998). The largest community is Turkish (2 million), followed by nationals of the former Yugoslavia (1.4 million) Language German (official) Religion Protestant (mainly Lutheran) 38%, Roman Catholic 34% Education (compulsory years) 12 Literacy rate 99% (men); 99% (women) (2003 est) Labour force 2.8% agriculture, 34.5% industry, 62.6% services (2000) Life expectancy 75 (men); 81 (women) (2000–05) Child mortality rate (under 5, per 1,000 live births) 5 (2001) Physicians (per 1,000 people) 3.6 (1999 est) Hospital beds (per 1,000 people) 9.1 (1999 est) TV sets (per 1,000 people) 586 (2001 est) Radios (per 1,000 people) 570 (2001 est) Internet users (per 10,000 people) 4,240.5 (2002 est) Personal computer users (per 100 people) 43.1 (2002 est)
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TRANSPORT
Airports 12 international airports and over 600 other smaller airports; total passengers carried: 57.3 million (2001 est) Railways total length: 44,823 km/27,853 mi; total passenger journeys: 1.9 billion (1999) Roads total road network: 230,735 km/143,372 mi (1999); passenger cars: 516 per 1,000 people (1999 est)
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PRACTICAL INFORMATION
Visa requirements UK: visa not required. USA: visa not required Embassy in the UK 23 Belgrave Square, London SW1X 8PZ. Tel: [phone]; fax: [phone] British embassy Friedrich-Ebert-Allée 77, 53113 Bonn. Tel: [phone]; fax: [phone] Chamber of commerce Deutscher Industrie- und Handelstag (Association of German Chambers of Industry and Commerce), Adenauerallée 148, 53113 Bonn. Tel: [phone]; fax: [phone] Office hours 0800–1600 Mon–Fri Banking hours generally 0830–1300 and 1400/1430–1600 Mon–Fri; Thu until 1730 in main cities. Main branches do not close for lunch Time difference GMT +1 Chief tourist attractions spas; summer and winter resorts; medieval towns and castles; Black Forest; Rhine Valley; North and Baltic Sea coasts; mountains of Thuringia and Bavaria and the Erzgebirge Major holidays 1, 6 January, 1 May, 3 October, 1 November, 25–26 December; variable: Good Friday, Easter Monday, Ascension Thursday, Whit Monday, Corpus Christi, Assumption
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CHRONOLOGY
c. 1000 BC Germanic tribes from Scandinavia began to settle the region between the rivers Rhine, Elbe, and Danube. AD 9 Romans tried and failed to conquer Germanic tribes. 5th century Germanic tribes plundered Rome, overran Western Europe, and divided it into tribal kingdoms. 496 Clovis, King of the Franks, conquered the Alemanni tribe of western Germany. 772–804 After series of fierce wars, Charlemagne extended Frankish authority over Germany, subjugated Saxons, imposed Christianity, and took title of Holy Roman Emperor. 843 Treaty of Verdun divided the Holy Roman Empire into three, with eastern portion corresponding to modern Germany; local princes became virtually independent. 919 Henry the Fowler restored central authority and founded Saxon dynasty. 962 Otto the Great enlarged the kingdom and revived title of Holy Roman Emperor. 1024–1254 Emperors of Salian and Hohenstaufen dynasties came into conflict with popes; frequent civil wars allowed German princes to regain independence. 12th century German expansion eastwards into lands between rivers Elbe and Oder. 13th–14th centuries Hanseatic League of Allied German cities became a great commercial and naval power. 1438 Title of Holy Roman Emperor became virtually hereditary in the Habsburg family of Austria. 1517 Martin Luther began the Reformation; Emperor Charles V tried to suppress Protestantism; civil war ensued. 1555 Peace of Augsburg: Charles V forced to accept that each German prince could choose the religion of his own lands. 1618–48 Thirty Years' War: bitter conflict, partly religious, between certain German princes and emperor, with foreign intervention; the war wrecked the German economy and reduced the Holy Roman Empire to a name. 1701 Frederick I, Elector of Brandenburg, promoted to King of Prussia. 1740 Frederick the Great of Prussia seized Silesia from Austria and retained it through war of Austrian Succession (1740–48) and Seven Years' War (1756–63). 1772–95 Prussia joined Russia and Austria in the partition of Poland. 1792 Start of French Revolutionary Wars, involving many German states, with much fighting on German soil. 1806 Holy Roman Empire abolished; France formed puppet Confederation of the Rhine in western Germany and defeated Prussia at Battle of Jena. 1813–15 National revival enabled Prussia to take part in the defeat of Napoleon at Battles of Leipzig and Waterloo. 1814–15 Congress of Vienna rewarded Prussia with Rhineland, Westphalia, and much of Saxony; loose German Confederation formed by 39 independent states. 1848–49 Liberal revolutions in many German states; Frankfurt Assembly sought German unity; revolutions suppressed. 1862 Otto von Bismarck became prime minister of Prussia. 1866 Seven Weeks' War: Prussia defeated Austria, dissolved German Confederation, and established North German Confederation under Prussian leadership. 1870–71 Franco-Prussian War; southern German states agreed to German unification; German Empire proclaimed, with King of Prussia as emperor and Bismarck as chancellor. 1890 Wilhelm II dismissed Bismarck and sought to make Germany a leading power in world politics. 1914 Germany encouraged the Austrian attack on Serbia that started World War I; Germany invaded Belgium and France. 1918 Germany defeated; a revolution overthrew the monarchy. 1919 Treaty of Versailles: Germany lost land to France, Denmark, and Poland; demilitarization and reparations imposed; Weimar Republic proclaimed. 1922–23 Hyperinflation: in 1922, one dollar was worth 50 marks; in 1923, one dollar was worth 2.5 trillion marks. 1929 Start of economic slump caused mass unemployment and brought Germany close to revolution. 1933 Adolf Hitler, leader of Nazi Party, became chancellor. 1934 Hitler took title of Führer (leader), murdered rivals, and created one-party state with militaristic and racist ideology; rearmament reduced unemployment. 1938 Germany annexed Austria and Sudeten; occupied remainder of Czechoslovakia in 1939. 1939 German invasion of Poland started World War II; Germany defeated France in 1940, attacked USSR in 1941, and pursued extermination of Jews. 1945 Germany defeated and deprived of its conquests; eastern lands transferred to Poland; USA, USSR, UK, and France established zones of occupation. 1948–49 Disputes between Western allies and USSR led to Soviet blockade of West Berlin. 1949 Partition of Germany: US, French, and British zones in West Germany became Federal Republic of Germany with Konrad Adenauer as chancellor; Soviet zone in East Germany became communist German Democratic Republic led by Walter Ulbricht. 1953 Uprising in East Berlin suppressed by Soviet troops. 1955 West Germany became a member of NATO; East Germany joined the Warsaw Pact. 1957 West Germany was a founder member of the European Economic Community. 1960s West Germany achieved rapid growth and great prosperity. 1961 East Germany constructed Berlin Wall to prevent emigration to West Berlin (part of West Germany). 1969 Willy Brandt, Social Democratic Party chancellor of West Germany, sought better relations with USSR and East Germany. 1971 Erich Honecker succeeded Ulbricht as Communist Party leader, and became head of state in 1976. 1972 The Basic Treaty established relations between West Germany and East Germany as between foreign states. 1982 Helmut Kohl (Christian Democratic Union) became the West German chancellor. 1989 There was a mass exodus of East Germans to West Germany via Hungary; East Germany opened its frontiers, including the Berlin Wall. 1990 The communist regime in East Germany collapsed; Germany was reunified with Kohl as chancellor. 1991 Germany took the lead in pressing for closer European integration in the Maastricht Treaty. 1995 Unemployment reached 3.8 million. 1996 There was a public-sector labour dispute over welfare reform plans and the worsening economy. Spending cuts were agreed to meet European Monetary Union entry criteria. 1998 Unemployment reached a post-war high of 12.6%. The CDU–CSU–FDP coalition was defeated in a general election and a ‘Red–Green’ coalition government was formed by the SPD and the Greens, with Gerhard Schroeder as chancellor. Kohl was replaced as CDU leader by Wolfgang Schäuble. 1999 A delay was announced in the planned phasing out of nuclear power. Social Democrat Johannes Rau was elected president. 2000 Former chancellor Helmut Kohl admitted accepting secret, and therefore illegal, donations to his party, and a criminal investigation was launched as he resigned his honorary leadership of the CDU. Leader Wolfgang Schäuble was also forced to resign, and was replaced by Angela Merkel. The first cases of BSE were discovered in German cattle. 2001 Kohl was heavily fined for accepting illegal donations to his party, but spared a criminal trial. Foreign minister Joschka Fischer faced a perjury charge relating to his account of far-left revolutionary activities in the 1970s. Two ministers resigned following criticism of the handling of the BSE crisis. 2002 Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder was re-elected in general elections, but by a close margin. Germany became the first European Union country to enshrine animal rights in the constitution.
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